A quarter of seven-year-old boys in England have failed to master basic
writing skills, while just over a fifth cannot read simple words,
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Thanks to the GCSE English syllabus, I bear a grudge against Carol Ann
Duffy. My enjoyment of poetry was set back a good few years by the
experience of being a bored pupil in a bored class where a bored
teacher gave a boring exegesis of the "key themes" in her work. As a
result, I've never really given our new Poet Laureate much of a chance.
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Efforts to improve the country's mastery of maths and English are stalling because schools have struggled with the "functional skills" course of the government's new diploma.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here

More than half a million children will have left primary school unable
to read or write since Labour came to power, it was claimed yesterday
as the latest primary school test scores are published.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here

Owners of Amazon's Kindle electronic book reader have received a nasty surprise, after discovering that copies of books by George Orwell had been deleted from their gadgets without their knowledge.Link broken or innaccurate? Please report here